This bar chart race shows the largest known pandemics and epidemics by estimated death tolls.
Notes:
The estimated number used for Covid-19, is today the 27th December 2020.
When estimated numbers have a lowest and highest number, an average is used.
In the past, the population was not as high as today. And there are variations between local population and local versus worldwide. So, a lower death toll in absolute numbers does not reflect how deadly the pandemic or epidemic was in percantage of the population.
There are some other known pandemics and epidemics, but without estimates.
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Top 50 pandemics and epidemics on this list:
(1738) Great Plague of 1738, (1770-1772) Russian plague of 1770-1772, (1800-1803) Spain yellow fever epidemic, (1813) Caragea's plague, (1910-1911) Manchurian plague, (2017-2018) United States flu season, (1817-1819) Ireland typhus epidemic, (1679) Great Plague of Vienna, (1861-1865) United States typhoid fever, (1906-1936) Malaria outbreak in Ceylon, (1681) Prague plague epidemic, (429-426 BC) Plague of Athens, (1720-1722) Great Plague of Marseille, (1817-1824) First cholera pandemic, (1826-1837) Second cholera pandemic, (1665-1666) Great Plague of London, (1829-1833) Pacific Northwest malaria, (1710-1712) Great Northern War plague, (1900-1920) Uganda trypanosomiasis epidemic, (2009-2010) 2009 swine flu pandemic, (1881-1896) Fifth cholera pandemic, (1812-1819) Ottoman plague epidemic, (1812) Russia Typhus epidemic, (1647-1652) Great Plague of Seville, (1870-1875) Europe smallpox epidemic, (1896-1906) Congo Basin trypanosomiasis, (1915-1926) Encephalitis lethargica pandemic, (1863-1875) Fourth cholera pandemic, (1596-1602) Spain plague epidemic, (1656) Naples Plague, (1899-1923) Sixth cholera pandemic, (1846-1860) Third cholera pandemic, (1609) Egyptian plague epidemic, (1629-1631) Italian plague, (1889-1890) Flu pandemic, (2019-present) COVID-19 pandemic, (1772-1773) Persian Plague, (735-737) Japanese smallpox epidemic, (1576-1580) Cocoliztli epidemic, (1918-1922) Russia typhus epidemic, (1957-1958) Asian flu, (1968-1970) Hong Kong flu, (1519-1520) Mexico smallpox epidemic, (165-180) Antonine Plague, (1545-1548) Cocoliztli Epidemic of 1545-1548, (1855-1960) Third plague pandemic, (1981-present) HIV/AIDS pandemic, (541-542) Plague of Justinian, (1918-1920) Spanish flu, (1346-1353) Black Death
